Re:Designing Windows 95’s User Interface
by russellbeattie on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @03:05PM
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Hmmm... You're right of course. I didn't describe that well. I meant Unix file names and way of working with files vs. Windows. In other words, forward slashes, symlinks, mounts, sane permissions, etc. I hate dealing with drive letters, etc.
What's a good name for this?
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Re:Designing Windows 95’s User Interface
by kllrnohj on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @04:42PM
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Oh, the UX of the file space layout.
NTFS/Windows actually has all of that stuff you want, too. NTFS's permission system, for example, is extremely feature-full and integrates nicely with the user system (ACL support by default rather than an add-on, for example). The octal user-group-all permission you're probably used to is pretty crude by comparison.
It's more likely just you're unfamiliar with it rather than it's actually missing anything.
But if you want you can just pretend C:\ is equivalent to / and mount all your other drives at C:\mnt\whatever, that's completely doable (with a GUI to configure it if you want, even)